Climate Disconnect
@climate-disconnect.bsky.social
Highlighting the gap between what we know about climate change, and what we're actually doing about it. Also, I live in beaver habitat so expect random beaver news and beaver advocacy.
Common pet flea treatment ‘should be banned’ due to environment concerns www.channel4.com/news/common-...
Common pet flea treatment ‘should be banned’ due to environment concerns
A House of Lords committee is urging the government to ban pet flea and tick treatments from general sale.
channel4.com
Leading by Example? The State’s Role in Wildlife Persecution Wildlife crime does not occur in a cultural vacuum. Laws, institutions, and public policy all help shape the way society values, or fails to value, the natural world. Blog: iwt.ie/the-states-r... @thejournal.ie
Leading by Example? The State's Role in Wildlife Persecution - Irish Wildlife Trust
Wildlife crime does not occur in a cultural vacuum. We must ask what message the State itself sends about the value it places on wildlife.
iwt.ie
The Reflecting Pool saga is a perfect diorama of how right-wing media turns Trump’s fantasies into public reality, and then tries to quietly conceal the wreckage once the facts catch up.
Jeanine Pirro's Reflecting Pool reckoning
The former Fox News star couldn't sustain Trump's fantasy. Her downfall is classic MAGA tale
salon.com
Most of the UK is farmland – and bumblebees are struggling to find enough food on it 🐝🍽️ New research from 20 English farms shows that pollen and nectar levels are far too low for bumblebees to thrive. Leo Fordham and Prof Elli Leadbeater tell us more in our guest blog: https://ow.ly/2coK50Zu6xA
The Arctic is cooking and we are in serious trouble In what should be one of the coldest places on Earth Its 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), as hot as Orlando Florida Without Arctic natural air conditioning systems we are toast www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...
It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
scientificamerican.com
Haha! Dutch partners: always there for you for a bit of constructive feedback. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Because of course.
The New Lede@thenewlede.bsky.social · yesterday🚨The EPA has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought and that nitrate pollution is at crisis levels in US drinking water. www.thenewlede.org/2026/08/epa-...
With the current heatwaves dominating the news, it is easy to miss this bigger news.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoHere is a version in Fahrenheit my American compatriots:
The entire focus of this piece was on the economy, with 6 paragraphs devoted to the river cruise industry alone. There was literally just one sentence about agricultural impacts, and that came only in the final paragraph. Not a word about impacts on wildlife, fish or ecosystems.
Ships Can’t Move and Power Plants Shut Down as Drought Saps Europe’s Rivers
Prolonged dry spell poses a challenge to the region’s already stressed economy.
wsj.com
Wait for her pivot to "green fuel production" to justify this: 'Transport secretary Alexander said: "Around 13 million more passengers and 100,000 more flights will give holidaymakers greater choice & strengthen global links ... We’ll back expansion that supports growth and our climate goals." 1/2
Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails
£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport
theguardian.com
With farmers across the country reporting this year's low rainfall is hitting crop yields, here's an interview we did a few years ago with Riverford Farm's Guy Singh-Watson. We need to free up farms to prepare for many more dry summers to come: share.google/zJBDVkHYOR8q...
So much has gone wrong. "Much of what is now Hungary was once a wetland paradise. The floodplains of the Danube and the Tisza, its two great rivers, stretched as wide as 30 kilometres... More than a millennium later, that water has all but disappeared, a process accelerated by climate change." 1/2
In Hungary, a wetland paradise lost
Climate change is drying out a European nation long celebrated for rivers, lakes and fertile fields
ft.com
New paper out 😊 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Plant species richness is key for restoring grassland butterfly assemblages
The results indicate that successful restoration of grassland vegetation and butterflies is strongly linked. To fully restore target butterfly assemblages, future grassland restoration should aim to ....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Some sort-of-good news on the environmental front: in New Hampshire, biocontrols are taking hold and might just let us return ash trees to our forests. www.concordmonitor.com/2026/08/03/w...
Granite Geek: Maybe ash trees aren't doomed after all - Concord Monitor
New Hampshire officials report optimism for ash trees as biocontrol wasps help manage emerald ash borer populations.
concordmonitor.com
The study combines data from 149 field studies, in 27 countries across five continents to compare the impacts of plant diversity on natural pest predators across croplands, grasslands and forests. UKCEH's Ben Woodcock is among the co-authors. See our news: https://tinyurl.com/3mtyu6ft 2/2
Plant diversity boosts pests’ predators and reduces crop damage
The largest global assessment of its kind has shown that plant diversity increases populations of predators to suppress pests before they cause significant crop damage. The meta-analysis combines data from 149 field studies across five continents, with co-authors including Dr Ben Woodcock of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
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Remember when Brazil hosted the COP30 climate conference last November and called on other nations to "raise their climate ambitions"? Turns out the only thing actually raised was Brazil's oil production ... to record levels.
Brazil’s Oil Output Hits Record as War Drives Up Non-OPEC Supply
Oil production in Brazil reached a record high in June as rising supplies from producers a world away from the Middle East cushion disruption from the fallout of the war in Iran.
bloomberg.com
Seems to me they could have left the wolf out of this and just used a photo of Trump for the cover.
This is now. Imagine what everything is going to be like when we hit 2°C.
Rhine Falls to Lowest Since 1880, Disrupting European Trade
The Rhine River’s water levels dropped to the lowest in nearly 150 years as hot, dry weather grips Europe, threatening to disrupt a crucial route for transporting coal, fuel and industrial commodities...
bloomberg.com
This is really sad, and something I've been thinking about when I see all these photos of parched landscapes that should be green this time of year.
martinswarren.bsky.social@martinswarren.bsky.social · 2d agoMy 2 Wider Countryside butterfly recording squares on Lulworth Army ranges felt like the end of days, with brown grass and very few butterflies left. Just the odd Meadow Brown, Wall, Small Heath +whites in 4 km. And one very worn Lulworth Skipper @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @ukbms.bsky.social
Things to blame for wildfires according to right wing client media I’ve seen: 1) summer 2) eco loons 3) rewilding 4) migrants 5) forestry management 6) arsonists Things not to blame: Just one - climate change. They are out of their minds.
What? "When [they met] for their first date, all she knew about him was what her chatbot told her. Villatoro had spent weeks texting with the bot, telling it about her habits, values, background and dating preferences. The bot, in turn, pitched men with whom it predicted she would be compatible."
Love in the Time of AI: Chatbots Are Taking Over Online Dating
Some singles are turning to AI-trained matchmakers as they burn out on swiping.
wsj.com
When will these Wall Street traders and their algorithms stop falling for this nonsense from Trump?
Yet another TV story on cattle dying from heat stress, but the focus of the piece is ... again ... only on "producer livelihoods." No mention of the incredible suffering these animals went through before finally dying. These deaths are preventable in a developed country like the USA.
Heat wave kills more than 1,000 cattle in northeast South Dakota, threatening producer livelihood...
YouTube video by KOTA Territory News
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I'm all for "climate adaptation," but honestly I don't know how we can adapt to this level of climate disruption of agriculture. Farmers can't "adapt" to chronic drought and heatwaves. Crops don't "adapt" -- they wither. I don't think we fully understand where we're headed.
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue
theguardian.com
Australia has a completely different set of ecosystems to the UK. In Britain, you don’t fight fire with fire: you fight it with water. We have allowed landowners to comprehensively drain our peat bogs, remove farmland ponds, riddle landscapes with field drains. Make Britain Wet Again!
As if we didn’t need another reason to pump the brakes on Big Tech’s data center fever dreams… Our research team just took a deep dive into how data centers are turning to toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” for liquid cooling. Read more here: https://fwwat.ch/4xfE0UV
I keep seeing these scenes of dry, shriveled landscapes and think about all the invertebrates and wildlife who depend on green vegetation to survive. The media focus is always about the impacts on humans, but what about them?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d agoJuly set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwaves
Another awful fire in a town many people may not have heard of. Little media attention outside its own region. '...it will likely be days before it’s known exactly how many homes were lost. “Probably the largest, most destructive fire in Washington’s history occurred yesterday afternoon,” he said.'
Wildfire in northwest Spokane destroys 640 structures
The Old Trails wildfire in northwest Spokane destroyed 640 structures Saturday, according to Cody Rohrbach, Spokane County Fire District 3 fire chief.
spokesman.com
